To maintain consistency, designers of replicated services have traditionally been forced to choose from either strong consistency guarantees or none at all. Realizing that a conti...
—It has been widely acknowledged that online storage systems within the “cloud” of the Internet provide services of a substantial value to end users who wish to share files ...
Ye Sun, Fangming Liu, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Xinyan Zh...
This paper presents a scalable and adaptive decentralized metadata lookup scheme for ultra large-scale file systems (≥ Petabytes or even Exabytes). Our scheme logically organiz...
Yu Hua, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Lei Tian
—A handful of proposals address the problem of bootstrapping a large DHT network from scratch, but they all forgo the standard DHT join protocols in favor of their own distribute...
Jae Woo Lee, Henning Schulzrinne, Wolfgang Kellere...
In data intensive sciences like High Energy Physics, large amounts of data are typically distributed and/or replicated to several sites. Although there exist various ways to store...